History
| “ | She is Thy Ruler of the seas, with her mightyfulle velocitie moure veloce than the wynd, and mightyer than the rocke, she is, my Deare Godspeed | ” |
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—Diary of Bartholomew Gosnold |
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All 39 passengers and 13 sailors she carried on that voyage were male. The route included a stop in the Canary Islands and, with better wind, would have taken about two months to traverse; instead, the voyage lasted 144 days. The 40-ton Godspeed was a brigantine estimated to have been 68 feet (21 m) in length.
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